2018/01/19 03:10:02
Eiomksfer
CaptaPraelium
arestavo
Then again, even after the update the speculationcontrol powershell command is still showing that hardware support for branch speculation is false, per


Are you running powershell as admin?
Works here on my x99 Micro2 with 5820K:

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-SpeculationControlSettings
Speculation control settings for CVE-2017-5715 [branch target injection]

Hardware support for branch target injection mitigation is present: True
Windows OS support for branch target injection mitigation is present: True
Windows OS support for branch target injection mitigation is enabled: True

Speculation control settings for CVE-2017-5754 [rogue data cache load]

Hardware requires kernel VA shadowing: True
Windows OS support for kernel VA shadow is present: True
Windows OS support for kernel VA shadow is enabled: True
Windows OS support for PCID performance optimization is enabled: True [not required for security]


BTIHardwarePresent             : True
BTIWindowsSupportPresent       : True
BTIWindowsSupportEnabled       : True
BTIDisabledBySystemPolicy      : False
BTIDisabledByNoHardwareSupport : False
KVAShadowRequired              : True
KVAShadowWindowsSupportPresent : True
KVAShadowWindowsSupportEnabled : True
KVAShadowPcidEnabled           : True

No red, all green.


Thanks , before doing so that , we need to backup everything for computer as i think
2018/01/20 05:05:57
T_low
Has anyone else noticed whea wornings with error-code 19 within the eventlogger?
I noticed that yesterday, flashed my FTW-K back to Bios 2.03 and it seems like no new warnings are ocurring.
2018/01/21 10:37:45
ursatz
Updated the classy bios today from a usb drive in the bios without issue.  Can't tell any difference in my work or games.  Easy to recreate my modest overclock.  Samsung Magician benchmark shows a huge (like 50%) hit in sequential and random write speeds with my 950pro 1TB sata drive.  Read speeds unchanged.  This is a totally non-scientific and uncontrolled test... more of a before and after thing.
 
 
2018/01/24 06:26:47
GTXJackBauer
ursatz
Updated the classy bios today from a usb drive in the bios without issue.  Can't tell any difference in my work or games.  Easy to recreate my modest overclock.  Samsung Magician benchmark shows a huge (like 50%) hit in sequential and random write speeds with my 950pro 1TB sata drive.  Read speeds unchanged.  This is a totally non-scientific and uncontrolled test... more of a before and after thing.
 
 



Glad to hear from another Classified user.  I'm waiting to hear more from folks like yourself.
 
Sounds like these things might kill our SSDs alot sooner then later.
2018/01/24 06:42:19
bdary
GTXJackBauer
ursatz
Updated the classy bios today from a usb drive in the bios without issue.  Can't tell any difference in my work or games.  Easy to recreate my modest overclock.  Samsung Magician benchmark shows a huge (like 50%) hit in sequential and random write speeds with my 950pro 1TB sata drive.  Read speeds unchanged.  This is a totally non-scientific and uncontrolled test... more of a before and after thing.
 
 



Glad to hear from another Classified user.  I'm waiting to hear more from folks like yourself.
 
Sounds like these things might kill our SSDs alot sooner then later.


I posted my before/after results in post #28 running a Classified if you're looking for more results and missed it...
2018/01/24 07:17:25
aparker591
I'll throw my anecdote into the mix:
When I installed the Spectre BIOS update, I immediately noticed that the overall responsiveness of my 5820K dropped further than I would have liked. The worst impact I saw besides what others reported was stuttering every few seconds of software decoded video streams, such as Amazon Prime in Firefox. GPU accelerated video (Amazon Prime in Microsoft Edge, Netflix Win 10 app) was unaffected.
 
I also noticed that switching browser tabs was perceptably lagging at times (while the video stream was running) when it never did before.
 
I reverted the BIOS update to the previous version and all the above symptoms went away.  I'm going to leave the old BIOS until Intel releases their next version of the microcode. If it still kills my 5820, I'm hoping I can gain back some of the old performance by doing some light overclocking (assuming that will help at all).
2018/01/25 20:27:50
GTXJackBauer
bdary
 
I posted my before/after results in post #28 running a Classified if you're looking for more results and missed it...




Thanks!  Will check it out.
2018/01/27 09:15:00
SimonOcean
Thanks for sorting this Bios update out. You should do, but I am still happy you have done it fast.
2018/01/27 19:43:49
arestavo
SuperConker
Does this Bios update also address the following issue?
https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-security-issue-update-addressing-reboot-issues/
https://www.tenforums.com/windows-10-news/102234-intel-security-issue-update-addressing-reboot-issues.html


No issues with that on my X99 Classified. My understanding is that the reboot issues doesn't affect the X99, just the lower end Broadwell and Haswell processors on the 270 boards.

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